Parish History

Monks-Kirby, is a township in Lutterworth district and partly in Rugby district, and a parish in Warwickshire. The township lies adjacent to the Fosse way, 2 miles NE by E of Stretton railway station, and 2¾ miles SW of Watling-street at the boundary with Leicestershire, and 6 miles NNW of Rugby; it has a post office under Lutterworth. The parish contains the hamlets of Pailton, Stretton-under-Foss, Newbold-Revel, and Copston-Magna in Lutterworth district, and the township of Easenhall in Rugby district. There are also non-conformist chapels within the parish, an Independent chapel, two Baptist chapels. [1]

Resources

Civil Registration

Birth, marriages and deaths were kept by the government, from July 1837 to the present day. The civil registration article tells more about these records. There are several Internet sites with name lists or indexes. A popular site is FreeBMD.

Church records

Monks Kirby, Warwickshire Genealogy parish registers of christenings, marriages and burials are available online for the following years:

Census records

Census records from 1841 to 1911 are available online. For access, see England Census Records and Indexes Online. Census records from 1841 to 1891 are also available on film through a Family History Center or at the Family History Library.

Probate records

Records of wills, administrations, inventories, indexes, etc. were filed by the court with jurisdiction over this parish. Go to Warwickshire Probate Records to find the name of the court having primary jurisdiction. Scroll down in the article to the section Court Jurisdictions by Parish.

Maps and Gazetteers

Maps are a visual look at the locations in England. Gazetteers contain brief summaries about a place.